Sunday, May 27, 2012

May 27 - What's Cooking




What's Cooking?





This Day In History
1703
Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1849
The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
1919
The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1930
The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933
The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1937
Golden Gate Bridge opens.
1962
The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire starts.


Famous Birthdays
1332
Ibn Khaldun, Arab polymath (d. 1406)
1794
Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
1818
Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894)
1819
Julia Ward Howe, American poet (The Battle Hymn of the Republic) (d. 1910)
1837
Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
1871
Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
1894
Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
1909
Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist
1911
Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
1912
Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
1915
Herman Wouk, American writer
1922
Christopher Lee, English actor
1925
Tony Hillerman, American writer (d. 2008)
1934
Harlan Ellison, American author
1936
Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
1939
Don Williams, American country singer
1955
Richard Schiff, American actor
1957
Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1971
Paul Bettany, English actor

1 comment:

  1. Uncle Rodney recommends band-aids for new cooks who not only grab the knife to stir the pot, but grab it by the wrong end...

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